Two Bodies, One Stuffed in Pot, Found in Mexican City

Source: Associated Press

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Two bullet-ridden bodies were found Friday at the foot of a monument in this violent Mexican border city, one of them partially stuffed into a large pot. Police had not identified the bodies and had no immediate suspects. But Mexico's drug cartels have gone to increasingly gruesome lengths to intimidate their rivals, often torturing and beheading their victims.

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Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, has become a battleground for rival drug cartels, with citizens waking up nearly every day to news of shootouts and killings. More than 1,000 people have been killed this year, despite the deployment of thousands of soldiers and federal police to help root out gangs.

Journalists in the city were attending a mass Friday for Armando Rodriguez, a local crime reporter gunned down the day before while warming up his car in front of his home. In Washington, the Inter-American Human Rights Commission deplored his killing and called on "Mexican authorities to quickly and efficiently investigate the crime and punish those responsible." The Mexican office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights also condemned the attack.

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Mexico has become one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists, in part because drug gangs target reporters whose stories detail their activities. At least 24 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.


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More dead this year in Mexico's prohibition wars than in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Instead of exporting them to Mexico, like it has done with drug prohibition. Mexico pays the price for our war on the drugs we love to hate (or hate to love).

what all the immigrant haters would say is a problem, undocumented workers coming here for a better life. I wasn't saying we should do that. I was just saying if the Bushistas were determined to create a military problem somewhere in the world, it should be someplace that could actually benefit from a change of regime like Mexico and where we actually do have some reason for it. But preemptive war is something we should never do again. I think we both agree.

We will have to come to some diplomatic solution with Mexico to deal with the problems on both sides of the border created by their government and ours. It can't be ignored any longer and no stupid wall on the border will fix it.

Over a thousand people thought to have drug connections have been murdered this year in Juarez. There is an incredible amount of money to be earned in the drug trade and the "War on Drugs" has had zero effect. Drug related violence would probably stop the minute we legalized drugs and regulated their sale as we do with alcohol. (That prohibition didn't work either.)

As to the Mexican Government; our trade policies have encouraged them to remain corrupt. We should encourage them to restructure.

We don't have much of a drug violence problem here in Southern New Mexico, but it is only a matter of time. We are one of the main corridors of drug traffic to the metropolitan areas and one of our more lucrative sources of jobs here is Border Patrol, Prisons and general law enforcement. Our economic interest is not to legalize drugs.

I don't in a million years think we should invade Mexico. What I said was an aside, something to the effect that if we are going to do something stupid, do it somewhere where there might be a better reason to do so and where some good might come out of it.

When, exactly, should we have invaded?

20 November (next week) is the anniversary of Madero's call to arms against the Diaz government in 1910. More than one million died fighting for and against a dictatorship...back then.
I live in Mexico at the moment. Not in some ex-pat American enclave, but in the middle of Guadalajara. People are scared to death right now.
Before I say any more, I'll wait for a response...

Edited for clarity.

sorry, I'm a little touchy about my second home country. And, considering the timing of this thread (i.e., within week of the 98th anniversary of the start of the Revolution), "invasion", "Mexico", and "The US" in one group of sentences resonated rather strongly.

It worked so well in Colombia...where after nine years of Plan Colombia, which spent $6 billion to cut the coca/cocaine trade in half, coca/cocaine production increased by 15%.

proud of how well the War on Drugs is working :sarcasm:

Throwing billions of dollars around like it's water,and for what? On the other hand,morticians are loving it.(not to mention corrupt politicians and cops)